Monthly Archives - July 2016

Permissions required for secure roaming profiles & redirected folders

This post could also be titled "How to break permission inheritance properly, without breaking everything else," and the advice applies well beyond the scope of maintaining roaming profiles and redirected folders. I often run into a lot of new clients that are incorrectly configured when it comes to redirected folders & roaming...
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What is Technology?

What is technology? The word technology is made up of two root words—techne and logos. Both come from Ancient Greek. The first of these means “art, skill or craft,” while the second means “dialogue, discourse or study.” Techne is particularly concerned with human agency and artisanship--that which is applied to trades...
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New Options for High Availability using Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)

Windows Server 2016 introduces a new feature called Storage Spaces Direct. Expanding on their existing software-defined storage technology, Microsoft now allows us to pool internal disks across multiple servers--meaning that you do not need to use a separate enclosure and extra cabling to enable a shared storage solution. Shared storage is required for...
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Windows Server 2016 Essentials Experience: Bug with alias addresses

You may or may not be aware that certain mailbox properties are exposed and configurable from the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard.  For example, you can quickly add or edit alias SMTP addresses. If you didn't know it before, now you do! From the Users tab, select a user, View the account...
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How to create an Anonymous relay connector in Exchange 2016

Hey, somebody moved my cheese again... If you configured an anonymous relay connector in Exchange 2013, for example to allow scan-to-email from an MFP device or other on-premise application, you probably remember that you needed to choose "Frontend Transport" and "Custom." If you left it on Hub Transport, it would fail, since the binding...
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Remove SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Source Server from the domain

Sorry Old Yeller--I know you were a faithful companion for many years--but it's time to put you down, buddy. I usually wait until the end of the migration project for this. There is no harm leaving the old server as-is for the duration of the project while you finish migrating file shares, DHCP, Remote Access...
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Migrating SBS Remote Web Access to Essentials Anywhere Access

In Windows Small Business Server environments, one of the more popular features to implement was the Remote Web Workplace (or Remote Web Access in 2011). The idea was to grant secure, web-based remote access to corporate resources (such as Remote Desktop or web-enabled access to Server Folders). In Windows Server 2012...
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Migrating File Shares from SBS to Windows Server 2016 Essentials Experience

To copy files from a legacy file server to a new file server, whether 2012 R2 or 2016, the process would be the same. Note: Some files shares might be better off in SharePoint, and users' personal Documents Libraries can probably go to OneDrive. This could greatly reduce the amount of data...
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